Camtasia coming to Mac on August 25th

I love the comments about how much better Windows 7 is. Yeah... it had better be after the Vista flop! But better then what the Mac offers... most of what I'm seeing is a DIRECT RIPOFF of the Mac and featuring things that we have had for years. So some of you are "going back" to Windows because of the attitude of Apple? Puhlease... like M$ is any better! Plus, you're STILL dealing with viruses, having to reformat your drive to upgrade from XP, etc. This to me is NOT a good computer experience. Buy a new Mac, plug in the firewire cable, transfer your old Macs stuff over in less then an hour, and you're good to go. I don't see anything this easy on Win 7. But back to subject of Camtasia... is a cool app but there are just as good options on the Mac from other companies.

@cscwebman: my point is that Camtasia is a poor screencasting application, in general. It has gained success on the Windows platform because competition is minimal to non-existent. Simply, if you need to do screencasting in Windows, you use Camtasia because well you don't really have an acceptable alternative.

However, the Mac already has a number of really great screencasting applications: applications that blow Camtasia out of the water. Simply porting Camtasia to the Mac is not enough; they've got to really come out with a stellar offering, and considering the existing competition and their current offering for Windows, that's not likely.

Essentially, my point is who the hell cares that Camtasia is coming to the Mac? It's like saying they're coming out with a Mac version of Windows Mail.

This is great news for both PC and Macintosh users. Whenever a company offers their products for both platforms, they end up increasing their sales. The increase in sales helps to fund the further development and refinement of the products. As a Windows user, I expect that the Macintosh version of Camtasia will ultimately improve an already great product - through Macintosh customer feedback to the folks at TechSmith.

Ummm... Camtasia is only an "extremely popular" screencasting app on Windows because Windows doesn't have any good screencasting apps (Camtasia included). There was a time when Mac users would've welcomed Camtasia with open arms because there was once a void of screencasting apps on the Mac, too, but there are over a dozen Mac screencasting apps, most *very* good, and all better than Camtasia. Looks like they ponied up to the Mac table way too late.

QTX with mouseposé is all you will need...

camtasia studio on windows is about the same as screenflow
(snapz pro, ishowU also good...)

but..free is better than all of those..

of course if you have a leopard server podcast producer has screen capture on every mac...see utilities folder>podcast capture is already installed!!
podcast producer than creates every video format thought of...
3gp to HD1080p
mobile phone to large screen plasma

@KeynoteKen Perhaps you have a point about the editing capabilities in QuickTime X, but wouldn't that be what iMovie would be used for?

QuickTimeX coming to Mac in October.

May I just say that I am more likely to switch back to Windows 7 than convince people I know to switch to Mac.

Not really related to the topic of a screencaster article, but neither was that intro.

> It's a blog post, it's *supposed* to be snarky!

I couldn't disagree more, John, and I'm happy that most bloggers that I read don't take that view.

As for Camtasia, it'll need some serious magic to pull me away from Screenflow. I've been in love with that app since I first tried it out, specifically for how it divides up production and post-production, removing the distraction of managing effects while recording like other apps do. Nice to see Camtasia coming to the Mac just the same, as it keeps the pressure on to improve.

I think some of you guys take this stuff far too seriously. It's a blog post, it's *supposed* to be snarky!